The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-17
] COMMENT AND OPINION.

If Mr. George is preparing himself for prssi-
Dental race, he has made false start-Nsw
York Evening Post
IT is the poor who suffer most from the
scarcity Of coal. but the strikers do not seem to
think Of this.-New York Graphic.
THE nomination for United States Senator by
the Democrats of Indiana is an admission Of
their Turpietude. Chicago Journal.
WHEN European sta.eman talks OF pre-
serving the peace OF Europe, he means the
piece that belongs to his government-PhilA-
dephia Inquirer.
A FEW more ssd-n their cowardiy souls edt-
torias and the State Of Indiana will step up aud
out of the doubtful list. It will be reliably Re-
pubiicsn.-Minneapolis Tribune.
MosT of the free-trade Democrats sre either
very young or far advanced in life. Manhood.
in the full strength Of maturity. seldom falls
victim to that insidious foe.-Natioual Repub-
lican.
WE must have more attention paid to QUE
mail service. 1t is getting to be as unreliable ia
the South as it under Postmaster general
| Reagan during confederate times.--Atlanta Cone
stitutlon.
| THE name CT Joe Mcdonald has again bees
mentioned in connection with the Indiana
senatorship Mr. Mcdonald gets more men
ton" and fewer Offices than any man In the coun-
| try.-Chicago journal
| MARMosET monkey is one of the pets of tho
| White House. Can this sort OF thing go on under
| the civil-service lawl Isn't tho Marmoset Occur
| plying place that ought to be given to mug
wumps-Philadelphia Press.
| AS matter Of fact we do not believe that
Henry George will ever succeed in effectine
| land reform through any plan which involves
| the destruction of the Catholic Church as Z
primary Observation-Disclosures Press.
DAVID TURPIE. the Democratic caucus nomi-
nee, is unknown outside of the Hoosier State.
and it is hoped may continue so if his election 10
to be brought about by means such as his party
are now resorting TO- -Pttsburg Chronicle.
4 BySUM says the only chance for his party IL
for the Democrats in the House to run away,
break the quorum and prevent an election.
That is no chance at all, as the Ohio Democrats
who tried it found out.-Springfeld Republican.
THERE is no more discreditable feature In our
politics to-day than the way we hang back and
hesitate, when body of starving men ask Us 70
see to it that they are not molested in exercising
the elementary rights of free men, it any body
calling themselves sunion" threatena them
with violence-New York Evening Post. ~
THE new South is developing with a rush, ~
if it realized that it has to make up for a cen-
fury Of lost time. And the newethat new fur
naces and industrial works in that section are
being projected at the rate of q dozen a week,
yalls with dull sickening thud on the heart Of
the Louisville Courier ournal.-P Philadelphia
Inquirer.
i WE are very sorry that Mr.. George has intro
duced the religious element into his contest. It
can do no good, but on the other hand is likely
to lead to disastrous consequences. This coun-
|
under the equal protection Of our laws The policy
which even hints at the remuneration of personal
religious preferences is, therefore, and nacessaA
rily suicidal.-New York Herald
Ii is curious fact that the great grandfather
| Of the Rev. VIM. B. Hayden, OF this city. whose
SEVENTEEN birthday was appropriately celebrated
last Christmas day. was also born on Christmas
day, in 1875, and died on Christmas, the day thai
Mr.. Hayden was born. There has been, there.
FORE Christmas child in his family for over
che hundred and fifty years.-Portland me. ]
Argus.
THE first evidence OF the effect Of Henry
Georges anti-papal illumination upon the fort
unes Of his party appears in the proceedings Of
the Twenty second District Association at ita
meeting on Saturday night, where, according to
the statement Of Bernard j. Kelly the members
: passed. without opposition, motion to dsband
on account of Mr.. Georges ''broad attack on the
Catholic Church and upon the Catholic people a.
slaves of Rome."-New York Star.
We are in favor of the personal temperance
, men, but we find ourselves opposed to the po
: litical professors of temperauce-to the trades
men in politics who use their alleged temperance
to bully and to Doodle with; and we may say
that there is q rule our fellow-citizens will find
valuable in this association. Il is that wheneve.
/, professional temperance man proposes that the
first thing that is to be done Is the destruction OIL
the Republican party he is fraud. -Cino,nnat
, Commercial Gazette.